Author Description

For years, Ed Kurtz jotted down his memories of growing up in New Jersey during the 1920s and 1930s. Combining them with some essays on modern problems such as road rage, information on the origins of popular sports, and several (often spicy) jokes and stories, Ed enlisted his sister Mitzie, now 93, as a typist, and created the manuscript he titled "How to Win Friends and Influenza." This book traces a New Jersey childhood through the eras of America's Prohibition and Great Depression, and an adulthood that included overseas service during World War II, leading troops of Boy Scouts through the snake-infested woodsd, and building a house the Pope slept in. In a voice all his own, twinkling with humor and wordplay, Ed Kurtz relates a life well lived.